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Clear. Clear. Me. I need 120 joules of shock. I'm in atrial fibrillation. But Shane was like. It was a scene when Shane was sedated in bed and he has a sling on and he was like so happy that his loved one came to visit him and he was so cute and giddy and it felt so genuine. I feel like his acting was really peak. Then it's like, I guess the milk of amnesia wings some of his autism because I thought he was like so good. And you know, they obviously had to hide their relationship and in front of the nurse. But Shane had enough propofol to take down a pedophile and was just like so happy to see his boyfriend. Boyfriend. And it was so sweet with him and like, just like coy, like coinly, like such a sweet sickness that it makes you, ah, it just makes you want to, ah, squeeze them up. Elliot's here. I want a piece of that Russian pierogi. And I feel like this was the beginning of their real relationship, of them like just being really endearing for one another and accepting the real feelings and going out of the way to like really care. And we just got a glimpse, I think Ilya got a glimpse of what were to happen if Shane like went away. Like, what if he was really injured or Shane was taken out of his life and then it was like a wake up call. Like if that happened to Robbie, there's just no way I could ever recover. So it's like instead of just like bumping uglies while Rosie's chain hits you in the face on each pump. Not that we all don't love a chain. Bang. I got Robbie a chain. But she's so superstitious with her jewelry that I give her. She thinks it's like if she wears it something bad's gonna happen. You know her, so she never wears it, she just displays it. I've gotten her the best jewelry. All in vain. But Shane played high like so well. And he just lit up when he saw his lover. Like it was so sweet and real and he didn't accept, expect it. That was the least person, the last person, you know, we would expect to go visit him in the hospital. And this is what you want. You want Your boyfriend, girlfriend, your wife, husband of the same sex, gay, naturally to come save you when you're feeling down. It just has like healing powers. But I also thought like the writing of the flirting was so good, like there was so much tension and build up and like one of the earlier scenes when they were kissing in the hallway when Rosie was waiting for his cab and like made my heart bitter patter, like they couldn't stop kissing each other, they didn't want each other to go. And it's like this is how you feel when you're newly in love and you're like flirting and giggling and like walking each other down to the front door. Cut to two years later. Let yourself out and lock the door behind you and close the elevator door. But like in the beginning you're just hoping for one last tongue down and then your, your Uber comes. You can't afford a black, they're rookies. They can barely afford a multi pack of cups to protect their genitalia on Amazon. So your Toyota Yaris arrives with a stranger in the back because you can only afford Uber pool. So the driver has to get out because it's a two door, he has to do the seat and you crawl in like a baby to the back. But you need as many kisses as you can before, before you do the crawl into the back of the Yaris and you wait in sweet silence for the other passenger to be dropped off first. But it doesn't even matter that you're in a two door Toyota or that your bank account now has $5 because it did have $12 but the Yaris was a big fat $7 with the tip. But it doesn't matter to you because you're selling stuck and love struck reverie. But there this is the like so much tension and chemistry and how new couples actually act. Like whenever you're around a new couple, like this is actually palpable. And I thought the texting was so good. Like Shane was obviously so dry. I'm like, please show some personality. But I think Ilya like liked him for it because he knew there was like just a tenderness line behind and like at least Rosie calls it out that Shane is boring. I guess that was supposed to be like our insight into him having autism. But like some people are just boring. But it's like, you know, Shane is so whipped and he doesn't know how to respond when like, you know, he's debating what to respond before the hockey game and Ilya is just seeing the bubbles. It's like the bubbles and Then the bubbles go away, and then the bubbles, and the bubbles go away. And your heart's in your butt because you just want to. You just want there to. To letters, to manifest something that makes your bottom lips swell. Like, please, something, please say anything. A period, anything. Like a heart. But hopefully it's something sexy that makes me giddy. And then I can play on the rink and I can get all the other goals. But one of the times when Shane went to have, like, a sneaky with Rosie at the hotel, and then he left and he was in the elevator and he was texting, texting, and then deleting, texting. Then Delaney, and then his head was against the elevator wall, and then he's like, we didn't even kiss. It's like, shane, these are the pangs of a relationship. It hurts when. When they just go for your genitalia and don't even kiss you on the mouth. But there's, like, so much awkward tension and nerves and, like, you don't trust yourself. And I think they captured that so well. Like, I. I feel like the progression from, like, the beginning of dating to the end to falling in love was just, like, so good. And I didn't expect it, really. But it's like, in the beginning, like, everything comes out weird. And then all of a sudden, you find yourself making. Making a bruschetta for a day date when you're gonna have sex for the first time, but you're really nervous and you're blushing, but the brushetta is so good, it makes you want to take your clothes off. Me and the bruschetta and Robbie. This was our second date. What I would do kind of to go back there, but it's like it always still feels new. But anyways, I. I brought over. I brought over ingredients to. For the bruschetta, and she died over the tomato spread. And while I was cutting those little mottos, I was. I was shy and I was nervous, and she just said it out loud. She's like, I'm so shy right now. Like, I'm so nervous. Are you nervous? But you can never tell when she's shy or nervous because she overcompensates with, like, a lot of words. And you always think she's fine. And I'm like, if this is shy and nervous, like now, I don't know if I can. What. What's it like when she's not. Boy, do I know. But I'm the opposite. Like, I. I talk less. I feel. Yeah. And I'm just kind of coy. But I was like, I'm nervous too and I really have butterflies. And then we laid in bed all day after the bruschetta, holding in our farts and exploring each other naked, and we didn't even have sex. Isn't this just so cute and lesbian of us? Oh, God. But like Shane and Ilya, they would like cuddle with. I don't even know how they cuddled because they're just such big beasts, but they cuddled and put their like heads on each other and Shane, I feel like, was always the little spoon and putting his head. And then Ilya would. And they'd kiss each other on the forehead and be so lovey dovey. And it was like I wasn't sure that I was gonna buy a story about like such passion and true love between gay men before I watched it. But riddle me reformed homophobic, because I believe it, all right? And we love to see it. They're like always giving each other the eyes and like, teasing each other and like playing around. I loved at the cottage when Ilya was like, no, I need a king bed. Well, they're all king beds. Shane says, no, but I need an ensuite. And Shane was like, well, there's only one with an ensuite. My bedroom. And we are gonna get to the cottage obviously, but before we get there, I want to be clear, I don't give a about the other storyline with the two. Did two other hockey players with the smoothie addicted one who won the Stanley Cup. It just like, it wasn't believable. They had no chemistry. Like the, the closeted gay hockey player, I don't even know his name, just like kidnapped the smoothie worker and wouldn't let him leave his apartment. This is giving lesbian, not gay. And I'm sorry, but am I the only one thinking of the huge financial discrepancy? You've known each other for two weeks and now you want to support him and this is the guy you're going to come out with on the ice in a public manner? And I just, I'm sorry, I didn't think the twinkie winky was just like that believable. There was just something I just like, wasn't quite buying because why didn't you go home to see your dad in like three weeks? You live down the street, he's gone at practice. Go see your dad. Like, I get it. It was just a connector storyline for Shane and Ilya to like, find the courage maybe and hopefully help them come out and like their faces when they were texting each other and saw it on screen, was worth it. But it's like they wasted a whole episode of mine over the smoothie obsessed runner who, like, I'm not even buying your relationship. I'm sorry. It seemed performative, like he just wanted to be the first gay man to come out and like he had enough gall or arrogance to do it. And I missed. I missed Shane and Ilia the whole episode until the end. I'm like, where are these freak elites with their perfect puckers?
